1.

Why are you interested in volunteering your time at UAMS

this summer?

I would like to pursue a health/medicinal related career, and I feel

this would be the best way to expose myself and begin my journey
into healthcare.

2. Have you had personal experiences related to healthcare

and/or medicine that have prompted your decision to apply
to this program? Tell us what interests you the most about
healthcare and medicine.

I have always had an interest in medicine, and my passion only

increased when I started talking with my aunt who is an OBGYN
surgeon at Saline Memorial Hospital in Benton. Medicine interests
me most because it is amazing how a drug or surgical procedure
can potentially save a life. Doctors dedicate their lives to helping
others, and I have always enjoyed service.

3. Brag on yourself! What significant school-related (or non-

school related) achievements have you accomplished? In
addition, please share jobs/duties you have held in your
community and in school that have demonstrated your
dependability, commitment and level of responsibility.
This year I am an officer for our schools drama club. Since
becoming an officer, I have recruited members, and now the club
has almost doubled in size. I am in charge of helping the other
three officers decide on the curriculum and activities each week.
For the past month, I have almost entirely led the drama club
single-handedly by being proactive and organizing a five week long
workshop for the members.
I am currently a musician for the Studio Theater. Once hired to play
the music for a show, I only receive the score about two weeks prior
to the opening night, and only rehearse with the other musicians
and actors about twice. They depend on me to know my music and
to be confident enough to enhance the performance. I have done
well enough that the theaters president and director of music has
invited me to be a part of the orchestra whenever I please and to
join any of his orchestras for a show without auditioning. Very few
people have been given this opportunity, and to achieve this status,
I had to put in many hours of hard work, even when I did not
necessarily want to.
I am on my churchs Youth Advisory Team (YAT for short) for the
second year (Freshmen are not allowed on the team), and I am the
head of the social committee along with another co-head. Together
 she and I plan at least one to two parties per month, sometimes
more. This past Halloween I single handedly planned and organized
90% of the work on an interactive murder mystery party that was
supposed to last for three hours with no down time. In addition to
planning and executing, I stayed for the cleanup and breakdown as
well.
For two years, I have been a volunteer at the Central Arkansas
Library System, working in the childrens program and page
program primarily. For the childrens program, I have helped
implement weekly activities and crafts. Ranging from dressing up as
a storybook character to reading kids to distributing snacks, Ive
done it all. In the page program, I have worked in the main section
of the library for a few hours a day numerous times a week. The
page program consists of reading shelves-a simple way of saying
that I would alphabetize books, shelve them correctly, and keep
them in a neat looking order-as well as searching for and cataloging
missing books. The program also has other duties, but those are the
main ones.
Later this semester and for my senior year, I will be tutoring at the
Arkansas School for the Deaf (ASD.) I will go to the school a couple
of times a week after classes and tutor the students in subjects they
have difficulty with, especially math, as that is my strongpoint and I
know more mathematical sign language than I do any other subject.
4. We receive hundreds of applications for this program;
please tell us about your summer plans, such as vacations,
camps or other commitments, as well as anything that
might interfere with your participation in the HEALERS
Program during the program dates.
I have no interfering times or dates, and if a conflict arises, I will
work it around the HEALERS Program.